Month: July 2016

  • St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

    St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

    I(Chris) visited Moscow for a few days in March 2016.  Never been to Russia before – so these posts will sound a bit touristy. Please bear with me. St. Basil’s Cathedral is a very iconic building of Moscow, if not the entire Russia (to non-Russians). Much of what I have included here came from Wikipedia.…

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  • Hilarity in names #7

    Hilarity in names #7

    This is no. 7 in a series of posts that is about funny business names or signs that we saw. Since we visited Japan recently, we would make this post a Tokyo special. See Hilarity in names #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 and #6 at the respective link. “WOMB” “Master Bunny Edition” – a line of Golf wear, really.…

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  • Tokyo Food Diary part 5: snacks

    Tokyo Food Diary part 5: snacks

    The earlier posts in this series are all about Japanese convenience/comfort foods that we have been eating some exported versions of them outside Japan (Part 1 is about noodles, part 2 about izakaya, part 3 is about grilled foods as well as tonkatsu and curry, and part 4 is about wagashi. Japanese snacks is an entire world…

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